Last February 21, the group of farmers who are going to start the production of mountain cheese Pro Biodiversidad met at the Cooperative of Goat Breeders of Candeleda. In 2024, production had to be stopped due to the lack of a suitable maturing cellar. In February, the installation of a new chamber in the cheese [...]

In its commitment to sustainability, the reserve's guards will stop using lead ammunition and the same will be recommended to ibex hunters. On March 11, the annual auction of hunting lots of the Regional Hunting Reserve of Gredos (Ávila) took place in the mountain town of Cuevas del Valle (Ávila). The big novelty this year [...]

The eleven students of the training and employment program Forest Uses Candeleda-Gredos, visited the Casa del Parque de Hoyos del Espino, where they learned about the activities carried out on the north side of Gredos. The team of the Bearded Vulture Foundation explained the activities being developed in the area under the LIFE Pro Bearded [...]

At the beginning of September, the last goat raisers on the mountains grasslands of the Sierra de Gredos met with the FCQ to develop a mutually beneficial project. On the one hand, the aim is to increase the income of livestock farmers through the enhancement of their production and, on the other hand, the maintenance [...]

Last Tuesday, June 13, the last of the three Bearded Vultures to be released in 2023 arrived at the hacking facilities in the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. It is a bird born last March, in the Center for Breeding in Human Isolation (CRIAH), owned by the Government of Aragon and managed by the Foundation [...]

FCQ participates in the opening day of the IX Ornithology Course "Know the Birds of Avila". This course, which since 2014 has been organized by the Provincial Council of Avila, aims to awaken interest in nature, and especially in the world of ornithology and in the 2023 edition has had the participation of 49 people. [...]

A female named Benemérita will soon join the two birds already flying free in the Sierra de Gredos, Risco and Galana. This Tuesday, he underwent a veterinary check-up and passed to the 'adaptive hacking' platform. Last Tuesday, May 16, the first of the three bearded vultures that will be released during 2023 arrived at the [...]

Last Monday the FCQ presented the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project to the members of SEPRONA and GREIM of the Avila command in the Casa del Parque de Hoyos del Espino. During the conference, the details of the project were explained and special emphasis was placed on the aspects in which the Civil Guard can [...]

Throughout the month of January, taking advantage of the fact that the herds are in winter quarters, FCQ technicians have traveled through the Sierra de Gredos to analyze the situation of extensive livestock farming in mountain pastures. The report highlights that, while cattle have doubled their numbers since 1982, sheep have almost disappeared and maintain [...]

Last March, the two bearded vultures released in Gredos in the framework of the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project, settled for several months in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, which suggests The national park will become one of the most important points during the dispersal process in the coming years. For this reason, the [...]